Multiobjective spare part allocation by means of genetic algorithms and Monte Carlo simulation

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 325-335

  Marseguerra, Marzio ^a   Zio, Enrico ^a   Podofillini, Luca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Monte Carlo simulation; Multi component system; Multi objective optimisation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SPARE PART ALLOCATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 9444289306     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.06.002     Document Type: Article

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